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Use software to test the null hypothesis of whether there is a relationship betw

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Question

Use software to test the null hypothesis of whether there is a relationship between the two classifications, A and B, of the 3 times 3 contingency table shown below. Test using a = 0.05. You may do this by hand, but it will take a bit of time. Find the degrees of freedom. Find the critical value, x^2 = The final conclusion is We can reject the null hypothesis that A and B are not related and accept that there seems to be a relationship between A and B. There is not sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis that there is no relationship between A and B.

Explanation / Answer

a)

Doing an Expected Value Chart,          
          
68.5773913   68.94608696   74.47652174  
59.19652174   59.51478261   64.28869565  
58.22608696   58.53913043   63.23478261  
          
Using chi^2 = Sum[(O - E)^2/E],          
          
chi^2 =    12.33692853   [ANSWER]

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b)  
          
With df = (a - 1)(b - 1), where a and b are the number of categories of each variable,          
          
a =    3      
b =    3      
          
df =    4   [ANSWER]

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c)  
          
Thus, the critical value is          
          
significance level =    0.05      
          
chi^2(critical) =    9.487729037   [ANSWER]

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d)  
          
As chi^2 > 9,488, we   REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS.   [OPTION A]